‘Making Connections With Photography®’ is my personal story that has been plucked out of ‘With Photography® — not just an autobiography’. It is THE autobiography.
Fully illustrated with photographs taken over my lifetime, it showcases my reliance on photography over the years having survived child abuse and a major accident , the combination leaving me with C-PTSD, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I used the medium to both stay in the moment and distract me as I was growing up.
Living with PTSD, my recovery has been facilitated by subsequently analysing the photographs and by creating others to explore and exorcise residual and unhelpful emotions. This is a true and powerful story.
The photograph on the front cover of ‘Making Connections With Photography®’ is entitled ‘Mingling With The Crowd’. Designed to appear quite conservative, like its creator, there are many different elements held within it; hinted at with just only one decoded message included on the cover – ‘…the exit was clearly visible, it had been there all the time!’